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From plantations in the South, to refuge in British-held Nova Scotia after the war, and finally over to the newly-created territory of Sierra Leone on the African coast, these slaves had navigated not only a formidable distance, but also the tangled web of race politics in the 18th-century Atlantic world...
...France. Without planes they are completely unable to enforce the no-fly zone mandated by UN Resolution 1591, even as the Sudanese Air Force carpet bombs villages suspected of housing rebels. The UN is capable of assuming this role. It has already spearheaded large humanitarian relief efforts in nearby Sierra Leone and the Congo, showing that it can coordinate such operations. That was, after all, why the Security Council called for 23,000 peacekeepers to be sent to Darfur. The situation in Sudan demands action. Its government has consistently refused to rein in the Janjaweed militias it supports, while...
Lupe Fiasco Food & Liquor (Atlantic) 3.5 of 5 Stars By JAKE. G COHEN CRIMSON STAFF WRITER On his wildly overappreciated 2005 effort “Late Registration,” Kanye West gets overshadowed twice. Once by Jay-Z on “Diamonds from Sierra Leone,” which is no surprise—getting bested by Hova on your own album is becoming a time-honored tradition. The real shock comes less then ten minutes into the album, when West’s unheralded guest and fellow Chicagoan Lupe Fiasco puts Louis Vuitton?...
...wild lands rich in natural resources, he wished to preserve them for commercial initiatives as well as public recreational use, making land use decisions through objective scientific analysis. But there was (and is) another side to the debate: The preservationist movement. Led by John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club, the preservationists wished to preserve forests solely for their aesthetic qualities, spiritual value, and their potential for recreation. Muir believed that any development of the then already shrinking American wilderness was an unconscionable injustice to the nation and to future generations, who would not be able to enjoy...
...Chinese government, which sent the funds - and the prisoners - to build a new Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a conference center, has put the possibility back into Africa's former salsa and cocktail capital. Hollywood is already in on the action. Early this year Maputo stood in for Sierra Leone for Leonardo DiCaprio's next film, The Blood Diamond, and DiCaprio was seen at the city's French-African-Portuguese fusion restaurant, Las Brasas, which has a reputation for serving the best steaks in town. This new capitalism is not to everybody's taste. "Advertising billboards seem...